How common is the surname Northington?

2,245 people in the United States had the surname Northington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 137,526 Americans. It ranked 13,509th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Northington getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,288 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,245 in 2010, down 1.9%.

The surname Northington

An English place surname, carried by 2,245 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex N635

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Northington is more common than 91.7% of them.

Origin

English origin

Topographic surname for someone who lived to the north of a settlement, from Old English norþ (“north”) + in + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). Compare Norrington, which shares the same etymology.

Northington is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,245 people named Northington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 137,526 Americans. That is down 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,288.

#13,509

rank among US surnames

2,245

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

-1.9%

change since 2000 (was #12,443)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,502	Nehring	2,248	137,342
#13,505	Fewell	2,247	137,403
#13,506	Dekker	2,246	137,465
#13,509	Klepper	2,245	137,526
#13,517	Amico	2,244	137,587

Who is named Northington

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

50% of people named Northington identified as white (not Hispanic), 43% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 50%
Black (not Hispanic) 43%
Two or more races 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Northington

Northington has the Soundex code N635, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N635.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Northington come from?: Topographic surname for someone who lived to the north of a settlement, from Old English norþ (“north”) + in + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). Compare Norrington, which shares the same etymology.
How common is the surname Northington?: 2,245 people in the United States had the surname Northington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 137,526 Americans. It ranked 13,509th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Northington?: In the 2010 Census, 50% of people named Northington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 43% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Northington?: Northington is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Northington getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,288 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,245 in 2010, down 1.9%.